Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-10-19
ANOTHER RAILWAY WRECK.
The Chatsworth Horror Duplicated at an
Indiana Town.

The Chatsworth Horror Duplicated at an
Indiana Town.
A dispatch of the 18th from Kouts,
Ind, saws: 1.-THE worst horrors OF
'Chatsworth were duplicated here to-
day. A dozen blood-stained, smoke
begrimed, injured victims of railroad
carelessness, or laundering, were
brought into the village statlon-house
early this morning and this afternoon
nine charred corpses, victims OF
the same laundering or carelessness
were laid upon the station platform,
while three miles west. down the track
of the Chicago & Atlantic Railway, near
lonely old water tank, piles or lear
fully tangled debris, marked the spot
where collision, seldom equaled Tor
terrible results, had occurred. Accord
ing to the best estimate obtainable-tor
only an estimate was poss1ble-1ully ~
human lives had been sacrificed outright
and half that number of persons had
suffered injuries more or less serious.
The east-bound express, that lett Ch1ca-
90 last night with a great loaG OF passen-
gers, had, without moments warning,
during a temporary wait, been smashed
into from behind by heavily loaded
fast freight, plunging madly forward In
the darkness, in hurrying dressed meats
to the markets of the seaboard. Some
part of the machinery of the passenger
engine had been thrown out of
order during the run from Chicago. A
trifing stop at the water tank would
make it all right, it was thought, and
the stop was accordingly made. Sud-
denly, out of the darkness behind came
the flash of headlight, the rush and
rattle of many wheels and then a mighty
crash. Just as at Chatsworth the mass
i've framework of the sleeper was trans
formed into huge catapult. Pushed
mercilessly forward by the freight, it
crushed into the cars forward, smashing
their comparatively light timbers and
making the work of destruction COM
plete. The wreck quickly took fire and
the sight of the shrieking victims and
dancing flames was one never to be for
gotten"
Many conflicting reports were sent
out during the day. anu late at night the
following has just been received from
Huntington, Ind, signed by Coroner A.
P. Leatherman:
Cannot as yet give names of killed.
There were eight adults and one child
killed; two wounded at Kouts now.
Know nothing of any others wounded"
CHICAGO, ILL.,, Oct. 13.-Special dis
patches to the Chicago papers to-day, as
to the extent of the Chicago 6 Atlantic
horror, confirm the Associated Press re-
port direct from Kouts the day of the
disaster. The Inter-Ocean has partic-
ularly significant interview with DR.. j.
II. MacClure, of Boone Grove, who,
with DR.. Mckee. of Kouts, was act
i've III aiding the sufferers at
the wreck. ''Those remains which
he -
persons who were sitting on the seats
near the windows, and fell outwards
when the charred framework fell to
pieces; but those who were sitting inside
and whose remains fell on the rails were
burned to powder, and not vestige of
them except perhaps few pieces of
bone would be found. [ was told by one
OF the wreckers that he saw little heaps
of bones, and this was corrobor-
ated Ivy the statement of others, and
doubtless that WAS all that remained of
those who fell between the tracks"
DR.. MacClure states the number burned
to death as at least sixteen or eighteen.
OF the wounded he speaks definitely
and his total is even higher than the
press estimates. DR.. MacClure says:
AT Miiler's Hotel in kouts, after the
accident, there were seven ladies and
ten men, making seventeen in all"
j. A. Frederick, who lives at Kouts
and failed to get aboard the train at
Hammond, said he knew there were
over fifty passengers aboard the train
when 1t left Hammond. Lew Thorn, a
wellknown travelling man, interviewed
the porter OF the rear Pullman Car on
the train. The porter stated that the
tickets in the possession of the con-
tluctor showed that nineteen passengers
were missing. The porter himself
'uuJed fifteen bodies, all burned to a
rISD.